Mind Node vs Orgzly: Notes & To-Do Lists

Essential productivity app MindNode has been my spatial planning tool of choice since Version 4. Now V6 has been released with some important updates, at no charge for recent V5 purchasers. One feature that I specifically requested is being able to edit multiple items on iPad like the Mac OS app. Thank you for listening and adding this feature. Of course I appreciate the free update; I’m also good with purchasing major upgrades when the time comes. Just keep doing what you do best. Here are a few quick comments about the product. It has been rock solid with a very uncluttered UI. Import / export modes simplify moving data between apps and quickly creating a complex mind map in MindNode. Theme chooser and outline view work great and stay out of the way until needed. Kudos Update: This is still an excellent app. There are a few features that would make it even better. First, the ability to copy and paste object styles. Second, the ability to assign horizontal and vertical layouts per level; I would like an org chart layout that is horizontal at the top and vertical below each branch for example.

- Skytouch

Life Changing I have a way of doing things but this has introduced me to a new way of spatial mind mapping. I absolutely how clean the UI is and how I can add notes inside of nodes. Since I started school this is the only way I can take notes and clearly organize everything. I advise anybody wanting to try something new, to use this app and give it 100% effort. I will add just a few “personal” things I hope they add, these are just my own opinion and reflect no negativity to the app: More in depth note section and better way to add bullet points. MOREEEEE COLORS If the connections could “flow” better instead of some kind of boomerang looking line. Again this is just my personally opinion, this app is amazing and I know new users will love it! Keep up the amazing job!

- HunterAllenRice

I have been using this program since it was first introduced. Until now I have used it for every condition where I needed to relate unrelated things. As promised, I am rewriting my review since the app support people discovered that my problems are not caused by this app. I had begun using iCloud with all my MindNode documents. One document, in particular, I updated daily and frequently updated from different devices. My problem occurred because iCloud did not handle my more complex documents property. Worse than wrecking my document, iCloud is set up to delete any documents that iCloud does not control. So if I turn off iCloud from holding and updating my MindNode documents I cannot recover them to my local device (iPad or iPhone). There are tricks I could play to keep or recover a single document, but I have over 30 MindNode documents so that is impractical. The MindNode support staff were extremely helpful and emailed me with questions until they narrowed the problem to iCloud. From there they had no suggestions except to not keep my documents in the cloud. I will continue to use MindNode if or when I can get my documents back, but I won’t create new documents or update existing ones until iCloud is out of the picture. Solved my iCloud issue by emailing my MindNode documents to myself. Then turned iCloud off.

- MEB1938

Functional, simple, does one thing but does it good, no-frills app, no ads, offline as far as I can tell. In general what I need, however there is one thing... lets say I want to save notes, set up sync with local folders: phone memory and SD card. Orgzly recognizes only one of them (whichever was used in previous sync session). So it is "either/or" and not "and/and" situation. Don't know if remote directories are affected. Android10 Samsung Galaxy A6 (2018)

- Володимир Снігур

Amazing app! It needs an option to toggle auto scroll to bottom, because if I have like a hundred of notes - scrolling to the bottom to see the last note is not fun. Would be cool to have an easy way of creating to-do lists. Something like a note where sub-notes have checkboxes. Google drive sync would be very appreciated as well :D. I also thought that it'd be nice to have sub-notebooks or notebooks in notebooks.

- Mr.Kleiner

This app is amazing. Very fast and reliable. Sync works really well. I had some trouble with setting a Dropbox sync at first (just FYI: it was a problem with a browser in which Dropbox login window was being opened, setting default system browser from FF to Chrome solved it for me). Non issues with the app whatsoever. The only wishfull thing I can think of that would make the app more magnificent, at least for me, would be to open ics files so that it'd create a task with due date etc from it.

- Mateusz Dudzinski